Family & Curriculum Support
Your hub for partnering with us this year — plain-language course guides in English and Español, practical ways to support your scholar at home, and quick links to the calendar, syllabi, and conferences.
Quick Links
The pages families reach for most
Upcoming on the Calendar
The next few items across all courses
Course Family Guides
One card per course — family guide (English & Español), standards overview, and materials list
How to Support Your Scholar at Home
What they're learning this year, and concrete ways you can help
Building the Foundation
What they're learning
- Patterns, expressions, and solving linear equations & inequalities
- Graphing lines, slope, and writing equations from situations
- Systems of equations, and an introduction to quadratics & exponential growth
How you can help
- Ask them to explain a problem out loud — teaching it back proves they understand it.
- Connect math to money: budgets, sale prices, and phone-plan comparisons are real linear & systems problems.
- Keep the family guide handy so the vocabulary at home matches the classroom.
Reasoning & Proof
What they're learning
- Logical reasoning, definitions, and writing step-by-step proofs
- Congruence, similarity, transformations, and the Pythagorean Theorem
- Area, volume, circles, and coordinate geometry
How you can help
- Encourage them to draw and label a diagram for every problem — a picture is half the proof.
- Spot geometry in the world: rooflines, tile patterns, packaging, and maps.
- Ask "how do you know?" — justifying each step is the heart of the course.
Functions & Modeling
What they're learning
- Quadratic, polynomial, rational, and radical functions
- Exponential & logarithmic functions and their real-world models
- Sequences, series, and an introduction to statistics
How you can help
- Treat mistakes as data — review wrong answers together instead of erasing them.
- Look for graphs in the news (interest, population, viral growth) and talk about the shape.
- Protect a consistent, quiet homework window — this course rewards steady practice.
📱 Phones away during work
A no-cell-phone homework window keeps focus on the math. Park the phone in another room and let it charge while they work.
🔔 Stay current on ParentSquare
All announcements, reminders, and direct messages come through ParentSquare. Turn on notifications so nothing slips by.
💪 Encourage productive struggle
It's good for scholars to wrestle with a hard problem before getting help. Ask guiding questions instead of giving answers — the struggle is where the learning happens.
More for Families
Policies, tools, and ways to get involved
We're partners in this
Check ParentSquare regularly for announcements, permission slips, and direct messages from Dr. Ijezie-Desbois. Have a question? Reach out any time.